I've noticed that when you create a new album via the "Upload Photos" interface it is automagically placed at the top of the albums list. However, when you upload a folder of images to the albums folder, the newly created album is placed at the bottom of the stack. If you have a lot of albums it takes a while to manually drag the new album to the top.
This is probably due to a custom sort order. We can get it to place new albums at the top of a custom sort order. Don't file a bug until we have the new bugtracker up!